GERSHON ISKOWITZ "SUMMER SONG" 1966
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description: Caviar20 is excited to be offering this important and large-scale canvas, from the first chapter of the Gershon Iskowitz's (1919-1988) lifelong career in abstraction. For most of the 1950s, Iskowitz incorporated representation into his art. By the 60s he had established a modest reputation in Toronto and beyond, joining the Gallery Moos stable in 1964. The legend goes that in 1967 thanks to a Canadian Council grant, Iskowitz took a helicopter tour of Churchill, Manitoba. The experience of seeing the massive expanse of trees from above inspired a major redirection of his aesthetic and material and approach. While suggestive of an aerial landscape, "Summer Song" was actually created a year before the seminal helicopter trip. This canvas is part of a series of simplified paintings that emerged during a dramatic shift, just before the voyage. This was a pivotal moment in Iskowitz's career, when his mature abstract language was coming into focus. In the same year, Gallery Moos represented an important exhibition of his work, accompanied by a catalogue text from Harry Malcolmson that affirmed the artist's growing stature within Canadian abstraction. Maintaining a connection to nature, Iskowitz applies bushels of denim blue and bright red, accented by jade green and marigold (a later favourite colour of the artist's). These groupings exist amid a luminous off-white-coloured ground -- suggestive of an aerial landscape or perhaps a view of the sky from below. Consider this passage from historian Theodore Allen Heinrich, quoted in historian Ihor Holubizky's biography on Gershon Iskowitz (which we highly recommend; it can be accessed online here): “[Iskowitz] not only completely abandoned representation [but] altered his position with relation to it. The first new orientation in place of looking at was to look straight up from the ground level, the other was to be up at some height and look straight down. [...] This might be termed intimate cartography, poeticized by its sensi…
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